Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

If you want to be holy be kind.

Vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the worlds deep need .

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody elses skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till theres nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end its all one.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

You can kiss your family and friends good bye and put miles between you but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart your mind your stomach because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things happen. Dont be afraid.

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep need meet.

The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been but you are because the party wouldnt have been complete without you.

Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. Theres no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's needs.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Death is a distant rumor to the young.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Because the Illinois death penalty system is arbitrary and capricious - and therefore immoral - I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.

I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Death doesn't frighten me; now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Death comes for us all. Even for kings he comes.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

It has ever been since time began, and ever will be, till time lose breath, that love is a mood - no more - to man, and love to a woman is life or death.

Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don't really think it is.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.